Red Cliffs Of Dawlish

Red Cliffs Of Dawlish

Sunday, 17 January 2016

Pro-Brexit Arguments: Beyond the Mirage

The promised political oasis awaits you... oh reader; read on and learn nothing!

I think I can say with some small satisfaction, I'm on the same wave-length as Dr. RAE North at EUReferendum.com in the latest blog: EU Referendum: fighting through the chaff. It's worth quoting a significant chunk:-

"In
campaigning terms relative to this referendum, "chaff" does an analogous
job – spurious arguments coming from all directions which confuse the
issues and make it almost impossible to conduct a proper debate.

For instance, given the argument over the source of regulation, and the
impact of leaving the EU on the food industry, it should be fairly
simple to establish the facts. Legislation in the food sector, perhaps
more than any other industry, is internationalised, which means that the
overall impact should be slight.

After all, in the field, we have Codex Alimentarius, the OIE, the
IPPC, UNECE and the OECD, amongst others all contributing to the body
of international standards which filter down under the aegis of the WTO
phytosanitary agreement and the agreement on technical barriers to
trade, to determine much of the content of the EU's Single Market acquis.

Thus, when we explored this issue, we found a Norwegian official
who did not feel that his country was in any way disadvantaged by not
having voting rights in the EU. As far as he was concerned, the
international bodies, not the EU – were the "top table"."

Effectively the Guardian piece Brexit a 'nightmare scenario' for UK food and drink business is "chaff". They could have chosen numerous different policy areas and the legacy news-media continues to do so - to the same effect: Producing more chaff: In effect the cumulative outcome is a Mirage Argument that involves pointless battles between confused people on both sides of the debate and a decline in argument quality. This time it's Food Regulations; I'm sure there will be a next time with yet another Policy area inducing FUD from the Guardian and the like:-

Legacy News-Media: "The Rat In The Room"

Leave HQ already warned that Pro-Brexit arguments are not about reducing Regulations (they'll be harmonized, consolidated, rationalized via the Globalization process now) in The big four Brexit Nos.

"British trade with other EU countries has risen rapidly since 1973,
though as the European economy has slowed, its share of the total is
declining (the EU now takes over 51% of British exports of goods, and
close to 45% if services are added in). Yet whether Britain is in or
out, the EU will be a key partner. For non-members such as Norway or
Switzerland, trade with the EU makes up a bigger share of the total than
it does for Britain. The effects of EU membership on trade patterns are
difficult to measure, but John Springford of the Centre for European
Reform, a London-based think-tank, and colleagues have carried out a
modelling exercise which concluded that Britain’s trade with the rest of
the EU was 55% greater than it would have been if outside."

4. Don't talk about controlling immigration

Political (mirage) Success = Measures that can be done and will be offered by the EU

With Cameron hopes for EU concessions in 'second-tier membership' for UK and applying a sort of Emergency Break and multiple other small print additions, this is dealing with a derivative argument of The Great Deception - only an worse only politically - not Democratically nor Pragmatically across full scope of Migration Policy control (decision-making) and execution (management).And here we need to cut through the chaff and look at what the Main Argument looks like:-

Most Of Our Politics is ABOVE our own system (electorate disconnection) and concerns our own politicians far more than we the electorate do.

There's two fundamental problems here:

The super-machinery of the EU is designed for forging a Political Entity above the National Member state.

Our own National "super-machinery" has been hijacked to serve this purpose and this is named The Great Deception.

Most of the arguments we've seen above and that shape the conceptual understanding of so many people is as Dr. RAE North points out is "Chaff". Here we can compare the other side of the EU Argument:-

Political Structure = Little EU (above) = Remain

Regulatory Structure = Globalization! (below) = Leave

Quoting Dr. RAE North again:-

"Think then how much more advanced the "remain" campaign could be if two years or more ago, when Flexcit
started to take the shape that we now see, journalists and activists
had recognised the work for what it is. But, with elements on both sides
studiously ignoring Flexcit, we have the bizarre position where they are falling over each other to complain that there is nothing."

It's really worth understanding Article 50 Lisbon Treaty as per Leave HQ once again: Article 50 And Withdrawal: An explainer. And why if there's one thing in the entire EU Referendum / Brexit argument we all should get right on all sides of the argument, it is Article 50:-